Top of the World is an unincorporated community in rural Blount County, Tennessee. The land was originally the home of the Cherokee Nation, who were mostly displaced to Oklahoma along the Trail of Tears in 1838. A grant of 5,000 acres was made to Daniel D. Foute in 1837. This included the area now covered by Top of the World, which was purchased by …
Top of the World is an unincorporated community in rural Blount County, Tennessee. The land was originally the home of the Cherokee Nation, who were mostly displaced to Oklahoma along the Trail of Tears in 1838. A grant of 5,000 acres was made to Daniel D. Foute in 1837. This included the area now covered by Top of the World, which was purchased by a developer in the early 1960s. Construction of the Top of World Estates by Roy and Charles Headrick was reported by the Knoxville News Sentinel in June 1965. The community surrounds Lake in the Sky, a 52.5-acre artificial lake formed by a dam built in 1966.
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